Dominguez Hills: Students Help Physician to Promote Health among Local Homeless

For 17 years, CSU Dominguez Hills’ student-health physician Sophia Momand has worked with nursing, biology, psychology, and sociology students to give ongoing free medical care to local vulnerable homeless people. The team of students aided her efforts by gathering and distributing hygiene packets to homeless people and, in one month alone, served more than 2,000.

For 17 years, CSU Dominguez Hills’ student-health physician Sophia Momand has worked with nursing, biology, psychology, and sociology students to give ongoing free medical care to local vulnerable homeless people.

Students in a course on the psychology of aging course spent 80 hours each providing direct patient and family care to older adults in hospice care or individuals diagnosed with dementia who are receiving specialized memory care.

A business ethics service-learning course has encouraged students to learn about local nonprofits and help to raise funds for agencies serving people in need by volunteering more than 1,000 hours each.